Thread number eight now, folks! You know what to do

Short descriptions of where your character currently is and possibly why.

http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1339011-where-are-you-now-7/

Thanks for making a new thread mirocu!

I'm not sure who to pick up with. I hate getting bored on there sometimes, since it means I'll slip on my roleplay. When that happens it's time to play something else for a while. Mynthel is an intriguing character but his madness means he is exhausting to spend too much time with. His game is definitely best played in small installments.

Hurrah!
In a cave, not far from Bravil...
Heading towards Silver Sky Temple to report back on rumours regarding White Wing, the girls got distracted by some good ole bandit-clearing.

This is sooo true with some characters, isn't it? Ann Thraxx is like this. I've only gamed with her twice so far. The last time (with the story going and all) took a lot of energy. Dyan's roleplay could be like this at times, too. More serious and heavier than usual. But Lady Saga? I just get in the game and explore with her, preferably randomly. She's got no quests at all (except finding stuff randomly for Umbacano) and therefore her roleplay is pretty light.

Oh yeah, I know exactly what you're talking about. Skarsgard is probably the character that's the lightest to play, because he doesn't really think too much. It's not that he's thick, it's just that he prefers to show some muscle and kiss a few people to get what he wants rather than using his brain. It's quite funny actually.
Rayn is quite relaxing, though I haven't quite decided if she's going to progress with the main quest. It all ground to a halt after the incident in the cave,

in that Harm′s Summer house poor guy, that bastards killed his wife, I love his place and his garden

It's because some characters have a vendetta...a wrong which they feel needs to be made right, perhaps. That's Ann Thraxx. Or they feel their role in the world of Tamriel involves taking down as much "evil" as possible, for the cause of the greater good. That's Dyan phor a'Cauz. These are both heavier roleplays, and I generally find myself needing to clear a definite amount of time to get into their games, so that I can take them more seriously.

Then there are those characters who just want to have some adventure and get rich. In my case, that's Lady Saga, and (in Skyrim) my deceased Nordic fighter character Thor a'Zaene. There are some characters who not only want to get rich, but have their egos blown all out of proportion, to the point that even I start facepalming various points of their game! All of these are lighter roleplays for me. Sometimes I just wanna get into the game and listen to "oh what's the matter, getting tired?" over and over.

Anyways, I need to get on-topic.

Lady Saga is currently undecided which direction to take. She's still outside of Anvil, in an area of Cyrodiil I've never seen before. That's why I started Lady Saga---she's supposed to go everywhere I never got around to with my previous characters. Anyways, she's currently walking east with Erthor, her annoying Bosmer pal. She keeps getting that "You CAnnot Go That Way" message, since she's been exploring the area just north of the river which runs into the Abecean.

Has she found that mysterious cave yet, I wonder

Lothran is still enjoying some time off in the barracks with the others. Burd keeps getting on his case that he′s more there than out in the streets, but it′s all for fun

The girls have just left Rockmilk Cave, not far from Fort Nomore.
It appears the bandits there were deep in heated and armed conversation with a group of marauders. N & V evened discussions by killing everyone.
Job done.

They are now camped - (yes with a camp and a fire) - just above the outlying guard for Silver Sky...

Oh please post a pic in the pic thread!

I will, as soon as I get one that won't get me into trouble

mysterious cave? I'm not sure. She just cleared Dasek Moor, I think that's technically a mine? close enough, I guess.

Now Lady Saga still walking east, where the landscape tilts treacherously downwards towards a river we can't cross. She's walking cautiously until she gets to the Skingrad area. She has no intention of returning Erthor there, though.

EDIT: Lady Saga is now in a necromancer fort called Fort Istirus. And she just found a Bow of Spaks! She's an archer, so finding this made her finally drop her Rusty Iron Bow, which she's had since leaving the initial sewers!

Jessica is currently in Bruma investigating the cause of the http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a160/MrDarkSim/tes4/f4cd5d76.jpg. The theory so far is it is a rogue wizards prank gone awry and that they can't keep the thing in the air for too long.

Baa is off on holiday again and I am currently playing my second Oblivion character I created back in 2008. Couley couldn’t buy the Skingrad house because Shum gro-Yarug was dead. Tried the console ‘prid - resurrect’ several times way back when, but after I got the house, I always found a broken cell NW of Chorrol which froze the game when entered. This time, despite wiki warnings of save game bloat, I used the console ‘player.placeatme…’ command to conjure up Shum gro-Yarug and bought the house. Worked for me, and I can now play Couley with the Skingrad house, and so far have found no problems. Took her up one level, to 47, and have toured around looking for problems, closed several Oblivion gates and dived in several dungeons, but have found no problems in 10-12 hours. So much for save game bloat - don’t know what that is anyway - haven’t noticed any difference in anything and the save file is still about the same. Wish I had done this long ago, but then Baa might not have come along.

Etta has left Vanua, in possession of the Crusader's Helm. Much has happened since she abandoned Sheogorath's mad realm.

Having "hit bottom" in her life of crime and degradation, she asked for help at various chapels around Cyrodiil, and was directed to a certain Prophet in Anvil. He sent her on a pilgrimage of prayer and fasting, and of seeking the forgiveness of all the Nine. Ultimately she was caught up in a desperate quest to protect Tamriel from an ancient menace.

Etta has now come all the way around. She started as an ex-slave, a prosttute, and a casual murderer, rose to the highest ranks of the Dark Brotherhood, and descended into the madness of Sheogorath's little corner of Oblivion. She is now on her way to Knighthood (although the idea of her own valor is the furthest thing from her mind.)

And here I leave the character for a while. I may return to Etta later, and ride with her to the conclusion of KOTN, but for the moment, she is in a good and stable place. Time to turn to new adventures...

Enter the newest character... Kara Whey is a young Breton student of the arcane arts. She came from her rural home in the West to seek admission to the Arcane University, and was robbed of her life savings by a Khajiit highwayman. Hungry and tired, she stumbled into a run-down inn late at night, and, thinking no one would mind, she ate an apple without paying. She was caught up in an escalating series of accusations and misunderstandings, with the result that she was arrested, taken with a group of prisoners to the Imperial City, and put into a temporary cell pending a hearing before a magistrate. Her life has taken a rather strange turn...

I have never completed the Main Quest with a pure mage (my previous Champions have been pure warrior or spellsword mongrel.) Kara Whey is a non-weapon-user, majoring in all magical schools except Conjuration. She's a back-woods type, unaccustomed to city dwellers, and very naive. She's very easily swayed by people in positions of authority. She has just delivered a trinket to an old man in a robe, and is now on her way into danger, on foot, alone, and very inept.

Having arrived at Silver Sky and spoken to Glarkos, the girls have been given the task of investigating Gulltar in Shadowkeep. Confused? So are we...
...Anyway, they stopped off in Leyawiin to check out the scribe, Miro, who is supposed to be completing Rathmer's bit of business, only to find, well - it was awkward.
So it's back to Bravil, but not before taking the opportunity to flush out Forsaken mine and a couple of other places around the outside of Leyawiin...

Falindel has just seen his second sunset in the town of Bravil. Staying at the Mages Guild, it seems he is going to be there considerably longer than he previously thought. He finds his guild mates' minds to be pregnant with notions of altering reality, and so (unannounced to them) he practices his precious Illusion spells on them. Of course, when they are not drooling all over him, he picks their brains of knowledge. He also found it extremely ironic that the Guild Hall in Bravil specializes in Illusion, for they must have to persuade their own minds in order to tolerate living in that scant little dump!

Lawl, my high elf can be quite devious, and increasingly arrogant at times...

Whoa, what is that? A glitch? a mod? Probably a mod...


This is what one of my past characters was...an ex-slave, and also a prosttute (although I never roleplayed this). Unlike Etta, she never rose to any sort of greatness, nor was she supposed to. She was a simple thief who couldn't even read! After awhile, Wanda Bone could tell which potion and poison was which, though, by remembering the shapes of the lettering found on the outside of various bottles.

Don′t get chicken on me now, Phon!

Wow! Lothran has been there all winter but he never saw that happening!

Nah, I′m thinking shady business involving counterfeit products.

I didn't roleplay the slave/prosttute thing either. That was her back-story. Etts entered the picture in the hold of a pirate ship anchored in Anvil, and she made her escape from there. Having freed herself from her former life, and knowing nothing but suffering and pain, she set out on a rampage of inflicting that pain on others.

Never fear, normal service will be resumed shortly!!!

Patch I have needs updating and that's how I'm explaining the floating castle until it gets done. Meanwhile she will just chill out in the Bruma DB Sanctuary training the initiates and waiting for the rogue wizard to run out of steam.

Manveru has left Vilja shopping in the Imperial City to take a short working vacation in Morrowind. Just a little sightseeing while acquiring exotic goods for his merchant shop in Chorrol. Odd thing happened on the way and he found himself being escorted off a prison ship in Seyda Neen.

They are in Sardavar Leed. V has gone hurtling off into the depths chasing conjurers...
They are on their way to Cheydinhal for Niamh to report in, going via the IC.

It's been a tricky visit this evening owing to some rather major tears in the fabric of Cyrodiil. For a while it looked like we might have to invoke the magic "start over from clean" potion...
...we shall see.

Cursed Mine killing bandits.